Signaling system.



No. 880,762. PATENTED MAR. 3, 1908.

B. STAUB.

SIGNALING SYSTEM.

APPLIUATION FILED Nov. 5, 190e.

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SIGNALING SYSTEM.-

APPLIGATION FILED 'NOV'., 1906.

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SIGNALING- SYSTEM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 19,08.

Application led November 5| 1906- Serial. No. 3421053.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l., BERNARD STAUB, a citizen .of the Austrian Empire, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Signaling Systems, of which the following is a specification.

In signaling systems, such as used in connection with devices for protection against fire and burglary, it is desirable to indicate at a central station not only the fact of a disturbance at a distant point, but also the loca-tion of this disturbance. Complicated apparatus has been constructed to accomplish this result, and the present invention has for its object to simplify devices of this general character by using only a central apparatus in the shape of an ordinary telegraph receiver, which serves to register any message which may have been received from any of the sending stations.

In carrying out this object, the present invention consists of a system of apparatus comprising one or more fire and burglar alarms, and a central station apparatus in the form of an ordinary telegraph receiver. The sending station is provided with an organization of devices resulting in the production and transmission of a series of electrical impulses, which indicate the location of any disturbance in the system of rotection.

Minor details will be more ful y described and shown in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of the entire system, Fig. 2 a top view of part of the sending apparatus, Fig. 3 a front view of an automatic contact or make-and-break device, Fig. 4 a side view of the same, Fig. 5 and Fig. 6, diagrammatic views of a part of the apparatus.

The building or the rooms in the building, intended to be protected against fire and burglary, are provided with a system of threads 1 of combustible material, secured with one of their ends to suitable pegs 2, in the walls of the rooms or building. These threads 1 are led over suitable cleats to an intermediary sending station, located in a convenient room of the building. This station comprises a receiving apparatus mechanically operated by any disturbances on any of the threads leading to the distant points, and brought about, for instance, by the severing of the threads through cutting or burning. Each of these threads 1 is connected to a disk 3, rotatable .on a shaft 4, resting in bearings 5 of a support 6. The shaft 4 is connected to a disk or stop dev-ice 7, and rotatable therewith. The disks '3 are loosely mounted on the shaft 4. Each disk is under the control of 8, secured at one end to the support 6 and at the other end to the disk 3. The threads 1 are secured to a peg 9 on the disk 3 and, when the other end of the thread is fastened to the peg 2 at the distant point, the springs 8 are held under tension, as shown in Fig. l of the drawing. Each disk carries on one of its sides a number of pins, one of the same, the pin 10, is used to act as a stop pin and prevent, by its becoming rested against one of the bearings 5, the straining of the spring 8 over a certain limit. Another pin 11, at or near the point of fastening the spring 8 to the disk 3, coperates with a lever 12, secured to the shaft 4. When either of rthe disks 3 is rotated by the tension of its-spring 3, after the thread 1 has been severed, the pin 11 of this dis-k presses upon one of the levers. -12 and causes thereby the rotation of the disk 7, secured to the shaft 4.

The disk 7 is held under the tension of a spring 13 of less power than any of the springs This spring 13 is fastened to the disk 7 at 14, while its other end is fastened to the support 6 at 15. The disk 7 carries a pin 16, normally holding against rotation the regulator leaves 17 of a clock work. This clock work comprises a worm 18, a worm gear 1.9, and a train of gears 20 and 21, connected to the shaft 23 of a spring motor 22 or other power device. Then the spring motor lis wound, it will not be able to unwind and rotate the shaft 23, unless the pin 16 of the disk 7 is removed from the leaves of the regulator 17.

(ln the shaft 23 of the clock work, there are contact wheels or make-and-break devices 24, provided with peripheral notches or recesses, corresponding to the dots and dashes of a Morse signal, representing the number, name or location of the place from which the signal was transmitted. The raised portions of the periphery of these wheels 24 are capable of closing a circuit over a contact 27, a wire 28, the translator or telegraph receiver 29, which is of the usual Morse type, and over battery 30 to ground at the central station. The disks 3 are provided with a periphery of insulating material 31 and a contact piece 32, capable of bridging the contact a helical spring points 33 of an electric circuit, leading over conductor 35 on the one hand to ground and l on the other hand to the gliding contacts 25 *of the Wheels 24, mounted on the shaft 23,

one `for each disk 3. Each disk 24 is ca able of making contact With a contact brus 27,

`connected as all the other contact brushes of the disks to a common Wire 28 and leading to the central receiving station.

In this apparatus, Whenever a thread is disturbed and the disk 3 to Which it is connected is released, this disk rotates a sulficient predetermined distance so as to make contact between the contact points 33 and, at the same time, the disk 7 releases the leaves oi the regulator 17 of the clock Work, all the contact Wheels commence to rotate, but only that contact Wheel sends its impulses to the receiver 29 of the central station, the disk of Which closes the contacts 33. The apparatus is restored by hand to its normal condition, by connecting again the burned or otherwise disturbed threads to the disks and by resetting the disks to their normal position.

As neW and useful is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. The combination With a series of rotatable disks at a sending station and adapted to be operated from distant points, of a corresponding number of make and break Wheels, an electric circuit containing a recorder or receiver at a receiving station and any of said make-and-break Wheels at said sending station, and a contact device on each of said disks to close said electric circuit through one of said make-and-break Wheels and said receiver.

2. The combination With a sending station and a receiving station, of a series of threads or cords leading from distant points to said sending station, a series of rotatable disks adapted to be operated by said threads, a corresponding number of make-and-break Wheels, an electric circuit leading to said receiving station and containing any of l said make-and-break Wheels at said sending station and a recorder or receiver at said receiving station, and a contact device on each of said disks in said sending station adapted to close said electric circuit through one of said make-and-break Wheels and said receiver.

3. The combination With a sending station and a receiving station, of a series of rotatable disks at the sending station, a stop device common to all the disks and capable of being operated by the same, a clock-Work controlled by said stop device, a series of inake-and-break Wheels capable of being operated by said clock-Work, an electric circuit containing a recorder or receiver at said receiving station and any of said make-andbreak Wheels at said sending station, and a contact device on each of said disks to close said electric circuit through one of ,said inakeand-break Wheels and said receiver.

4. The combination With a sending station and a receiving station, of a series of threads or cords leading Jfrom distant points to said sending station, a series of rotatable disks at said sending station and adapted to be operated by said threads, a sto device common to all the disks and ca ab e of bein operated by the same, a cloc Work contro led by said stop device, a series of make-and-break Wheels capable of being'operated by said clock-Work, an electric circuit containing a recorder or receiver at said receiving station and any oi said make-and-.break Wheels at said sending station, and a contact device on each of said disks to close said electric circuit and said receiver.

Signed at NeW York, in the county of New York and State oi NeW York, this 24th day of September, A. D. 1906.

BERNARD STAUB.

Witnesses:

R. J. SAcHERs, M. F. Woon.

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